Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity Should win Alfonso Cuarón Should have been nominated The Coen brothers for Inside Llewyn Davis The frontrunner Alfonso Cuarón is the favourite in this category for his head - scratching, jaw - dropping work on
the space drama Gravity.
At one point it had looked like outer -
space drama Gravity was going to sweep the board.
Space drama Gravity scooped a handful of top honours at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) Awards on Sunday (16Feb14), including...
Not exact matches
For top dramatic pictures, the selections made by the HFPA's fewer than 100 voters were the historical
drama «12 Years a Slave»; the Somali piracy thriller «Captain Phillips»; the 3 - D
space spectacle «
Gravity»; «Philomena,» about a mother's search for her son; and the car racing film «Rush.»
Cuarón masterminded the audacious deep -
space thriller
Gravity (for which he won the best director Oscar) and was handed the reins of a Harry Potter film, but has also made more intimate, Mexico - set
dramas such as Y Tu Mamá También.
«Pacific Rim» director Guillermo del Toro had a passionate reaction after the Toronto premiere of «
Gravity,» Alfonso Cuaron «s outer -
space drama starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock.
In the coveted best
drama category, «12 Years a Slave» will compete against piracy tale «Captain Phillips,»
space thriller «
Gravity,» adoption
drama «Philomena,» and race - car rivalry «Rush.»
Then the great film critic J. Hoberman weighed in with the following: «A survival
drama set almost entirely in the unfathomable abyss of outer
space,
Gravity is something now quite rare — a truly popular big - budget Hollywood movie with a rich aesthetic pay - off.
It looks like «2001,» it's as gripping as «
Gravity,» and the game's story is deeply personal, touching on numerous, suffocating everyday
dramas such as addiction, cancer and parenting (in
space, no less).
I'm interested in painting the figure in the
drama of light and shadow — that and the specifics of the body in
space, under duress, resisting
gravity, and so on.